Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Directions were given by the experimenter who was seated in the rear of the vehicle . |
| 2 | A 16-year-old boy who was trapped in the back of the van also died . |
| 3 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 4 | Now there was a lady who was working in the site and she was doing this with her hand . |
| 5 | One accident the HSE highlights as a plain lack of common sense involved a child who was left in the cab of a tractor while the operator dismounted to add bedding to a pig pen . |
| 6 | Playboy was described as a pleasure-primer , its symbol was a rabbit and its bait was the Playmate of the month , the girl who was unfolded in the centre wearing a staple through her navel but not much else . |
| 7 | I read a nice one once , all about a poor girl who was found in the snow with a lost memory by a young and 'andsome squire that took her home to 'is castle and — ’ |
| 8 | Down in the stinking , toxic undercity that night , the Lordly Phantasms stalked a tech gang who were raiding in the direction of the central heat sink . |
| 9 | , Lawrenceson Fitzroy ( 1881–1975 ) , scholar , was born at 235 Cowley Road , Oxford , 9 August 1881 , the youngest of the seven children of Harry Powell ( 1830–1886 ) , a trumpeter who was wounded in the charge of the Light Brigade of 1854 and who published his Recollections in 1876 , and his wife Anne Budd of Oxford . |
| 10 | Figure 2.8 shows the numbers of men and women in Great Britain at the time of the 1981 Census who were employed in the various OPCS social classes or out of employment . |
| 11 | FOR a writer who was put in the ‘ Garbage School of Literature ’ along with Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner by the editor of the Jackson Daily News , Eudora Welty has done well for herself . |
| 12 | He signalled a waiter who was lounging in the doorway , and gave the order in Italian that sounded as fluent as his English , before continuing , ‘ So , what brings you to Venice ? ’ |
| 13 | He 's a young lad who was employed in the house here , living in . |
| 14 | Jason , Pringle 's friend who was shot in the leg at Stillington , is ‘ stable ’ . |
| 15 | I 'll just see if that er that character who was looking in the window 's still around . |
| 16 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 17 | ‘ But there was another person who was staying in the same house — the Reverend Arthur Lyle . |
| 18 | Jeremy : The person who was talking in the story was trying things out and playing things . |
| 19 | Mobuto inhaled sharply and glanced at the massive bodyguard who was hovering in the background . |
| 20 | She is sitting next to her neighbour , a black woman who was born in the tenements and whose brother lived nearby . |
| 21 | Also being treated is a twenty-one year old woman who was travelling in the stolen car , and was apparently carried from the scene of the accident by the car 's driver . |
| 22 | An inquest has opened on a man and woman who were shot in the carpark of a D-I-Y store . |
| 23 | The rush over , Maggie drew in a long breath , and turning to the supervisor who was hovering in the background , she asked , ‘ All right if we go ? ’ |
| 24 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 25 | Would you continue to fight for the life of this man who was valued in the community and initially had a strong will to live , even if the odds seemed hopeless ? |
| 26 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 27 | However , the tradesman who was sitting in the pilot 's seat , when he got the order to turn the engine over , cranked with wrong engine . |
| 28 | Whereas George Bush was a long-time NRA member , Bill Clinton is a close friend of Sarah Brady ( wife of James Brady , the former White House press spokesman who was shot in the head during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981 ) . |
| 29 | The ‘ awful , contagious disorder ’ struck in 1783 and killed twenty prisoners and a carpenter who was working in the gaol . |
| 30 | Det Chief Insp John Stoddart described the brick-throwing as a callous , premeditated attack on a police officer who was acting in the public 's interest . |